its_bbq

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by its_bbq 2y ago
Why is makeup considered cheating but surgery not?
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by its_bbq 2y ago
This is not really the point though. Why is "uses Chomskian language" the criteria for whether it not it's okay to to change and slaughter a living being?
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by its_bbq 2y ago
So the image needs to be regenerated every time the post is read? Sounds wasteful to me.
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by its_bbq 2y ago
If I remember correctly, at Google we would run a sampling profiler on some processes in prod to create these profiles, with some mechanism for additional manual overrides
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by its_bbq 2y ago
On the blackboard he and his students wrote "Godel's Proof -- too important to be left to the mathematicians." As a mathematician, I'd love if anyone here knew the context
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by its_bbq 2y ago
And the not asked often enough corollary: just because there exists a technical solution to a problem, does that mean it's the right solution?
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by its_bbq 2y ago
I mean I'm general, I'd rather buy fewer of the same things no matter if it's cheap or expensive if I didn't have to, and it would use less resources. Juicing someone's quarterly sales report is no good reason for
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by its_bbq 2y ago
And not necessarily the long term result anybody wants
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by its_bbq 2y ago
Erdos-Bacon number is a join and sum ;)
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by its_bbq 2y ago
Yes I meant specifically for Kevin Bacon. There are other all pairs shortest paths algorithms besides running Dijkstra N times
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by its_bbq 2y ago
They call the dijkstra implementation slow but that's because they aren't using the full information it presents. Dijkstra gives shortest paths from one node to every other node in the graph, so you run it once and materialize it
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by its_bbq 2y ago
I don't understand why constexpr allocated memory can't be freed at runtime. It's not so different from statically allocated memory being freed at runtime. Maybe it requires hooks into malloc so the compile time allocations c
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by its_bbq 2y ago
Travel by bus in London and your opinion may change
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by its_bbq 2y ago
Drive by appreciation of this micro bit of prose.
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by its_bbq 3y ago
Most browsers will accept a mouse click or screen tap as user action which allows audio playback. I've used overlays to solve this problem, for example on https://cafegoblin.com (shameless plug for my friend's zine)
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by its_bbq 3y ago
Or you just use the app store version and it all works fine?
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by its_bbq 3y ago
I'm sure that helps them pay their rent and put food on the table.
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by its_bbq 3y ago
Better to enjoy your life before your debilitating disease than to be miserable up until your debilitating disease. The fisherman was going to die anyways.
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by its_bbq 3y ago
I suppose they're talking about utilitarianism? But that's hand wavey math at best. Eg the whole "torture someone for 50 years or remove a speck of dust from trillions of eyeballs" debate. Those who chose the torture see
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by its_bbq 4y ago
I use radios in a hybrid approach. I'll make a radio, find a song I like, and then go play the album through and let Spotify start recommending, and repeat. Tends to make enough variety to get me to all sorts of interesting places
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by its_bbq 4y ago
Beautiful! Can I request banjo and chromatic modes?
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by its_bbq 4y ago
A quote that's impossible to read without some irony
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by its_bbq 4y ago
Jigsaw is run by Google but if you look at outlines GitHub you'll notice that it's completely independent of anything Google.
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by its_bbq 4y ago
Outline (getoitline.org) is this in reverse: you set up a Shadowsocks proxy outside Iran and distribute access to it inside Iran
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by its_bbq 4y ago
It is indeed Shadowsocks (I used to be affiliated with that team)
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by its_bbq 4y ago
Please if you're having trouble setting up Shadowsocks consider using Outline (getoutline.org) asl19.org and their Telegram bot for generating Outline access keys. This team has put in years of effort to make Shadowsocks usable by regu
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by its_bbq 4y ago
The Moog store in Asheville has dozens of synths just out and hooked up for visitors to play on their sales floor. Best toy store I've been to in years!
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by its_bbq 4y ago
Misses the whole social aspect of the concert experience
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by its_bbq 4y ago
Shout-out to ASL19 who provides a ton of resources for Farsi speakers https://asl19.org/en/
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by its_bbq 4y ago
Imagine just trying to mourn your mother but it's a giant media circus event

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